Gold STARS All Around

With around 3,000 four-year
colleges in the U.S., it might be hard for any one of them to stand out. But
Dickinson manages to do it time and again through its reputation in sustainability—across
the spectrum of operations, academic programs and, ultimately, ethos.

Now, the Association of the Advancement for Sustainability in Higher Education
(AASHE) has given Dickinson its STARS 2.0 Gold rating, a
designation shared by only a small fraction of colleges nationwide. This designation marks the third time Dickinson has been named Gold through AASHE's Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System (STARS).

“At Dickinson, we value
the AASHE STARS rating system because it allows us to get diverse data from
across the college relating to sustainability all in one place,” says Lindsey
Lyons, assistant director of the Center for Sustainability Education (CSE). The
data are self-generated by participating institutions and evaluated by AASHE,
which then ranks facets of each institution through four broad sets of
criteria: academics, engagement, operations and planning & administration.